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Industrial Internet of Things IIoT [Full subscriber]

The increasing digitalization of companies and the associated networking of nearly all sectors are generating tremendous economic potential. Today over 20 billion devices and machines are already connected via the […]

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The CLOUD [Full subscriber]

The CLOUD – Talk of the town worldwide, used billions of times each day, miraculously working and in the news only, once it rains, or when massive security problems make […]

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Black soldier fly larva as a bioconversion agent [Full subscriber]

The global food demand is expected to increase by 70% by 2050, with major shifts most likely happening in diets favoring animal-based and protein-rich foods [1]. Soybean and fish are […]

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Fumaric Acid [Full subscriber]

Fumaric acid has been identified by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of the “top 12” building block chemicals that can be potentially manufactured using renewable feedstocks [1]. Owing […]

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Industry 4.0: Simulation [Full subscriber]

Simulation in the process industry and specifically in sugar factories is not breathtakingly new. Most processes are designed in a lab model first, and then scaled up to the industrial […]

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Industry 4.0: Cybersecurity [Full subscriber]

Introduction The increasing digitalization of companies and the associated networking of nearly all sectors are generating tremendous economic potential. Figure 1. Why is industrial security so important? Today over 20 […]

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Xylooligosaccharides: Bagasse sugars as prebiotics [Full subscriber]

The agroindustry has been focusing for some time on the recovery of lignocellulosic by-products to produce sustainable ingredients targeting the feed, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries. Lignocellulosic materials or […]

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Microbial polysaccharides at the sugar factory [Registered]

Sucrose deterioration can be attributed to physical, chemical, enzymatic, and microbial deterioration. During microbial deterioration, a variety of extracellular polysaccharides or long chain sugar molecules (EPS, e.g., dextran, fructan), oligosaccharides […]

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Green hydrogen [Full subscriber]

Hydrogen is recognised as one of the most promising clean energy sources of the future. A kilogram of hydrogen has about three times as much energy as a comparable amount […]

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The gamification approach: learning by playing [Full subscriber]

Introduction How can the gamification approach be used to encourage “learning by playing”? How can digital content be designed in such a way as to communicate sustainable information to employees […]

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